Jennifer Hudson will make her Broadway debut in the fall when the musical "The Color Purple" returns.
The Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe winner will play Shug Avery, a sultry blues singer, in the production directed and designed by John Doyle, who received a director's Tony in 2006 for his own Broadway debut, "Sweeney Todd."

It's Hudson's first musical theater role since her award-winning turn in the 2006 film "Dreamgirls." Further casting and a specific theater were not announced in a statement released Friday by the show's publicists.
Doyle opened his production of "The Color Purple" in 2013 in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Music and lyrics are by Grammy winners Brenda Russell, Allee Willis a ... Read more »

Yesterday, the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters has postponed their meeting with the INEC over the ill-health of the INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega. 

The House Committee, led by Jerry Manwe nad invited INEC, along with other stakeholders to discuss the preparedness of Nigeria for the 2015 general elections. 

“The chairman (Manwe) has just directed me to convey the inability of the INEC chairman to come for the meeting tomorrow (Friday) as a result of ill-health.

“Accordingly, the meeting of tomorrow (yesterday) will not hold. A new date will be communicated please. All inconveniences are regretted,” a statement by the acting clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Oscar Okoro read.

Katy Perry’s romance with John Mayer is officially back on, reports The New York Post. Nearly a year after they broke up, the pair made a dramatic entrance together at Hollywood hot spot the Tower Bar, surprising a room full of A-list stars into silence.
The singers, who confirmed their split in February 2014, turned up together Thursday night at the West Hollywood restaurant in the Sunset Tower Hotel and proceeded to canoodle over dinner before astonished fellow diners.

Perry, who’s preparing for the Feb. 1 Super Bowl halftime show, and Mayer had been rumored to be reconciling after they were spot ... Read more »

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Friday, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the only party that has the interest of Nigerian women.

The first lady, who made the remark at the PDP Presidential Campaign Rally in Enugu, thanked the Igbo people for casting their votes for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.

She enjoined women to vote for Jonathan for the second term because he would further uplift their status and presence in government.

She added that ''PDP is the only party that has the interests of women at heart.

''Women should vote for a president who gave us 35 per cent affirmative action and the opportunity to be heard.

''Women who are yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) should endeavour to do so to be able ... Read more »